The problem with defunct communist ideologists is that believers are like headless chickens trying to find their bearings, lost in an identity search.

It seems the model the MLP is emulating is the Asian capitalist system of China run by a perverse communism regime which somehow still survives.

It does have over a century’s head start over the others and as you pointed out, it’s image is also plastered on sauce bottles. The point though is that there isn’t a correlation between a country’s respect of democracy and the magnificence of its parliament building.

[Daphne – Yes, Sandro, there is. And the Palace of Westminster’s iconic status has very little to do with its ‘headstart’ or even the sauce bottle. It is precisely because, in truly democratic states, parliament buildings are grand and conspicuous that undemocratic states, where they have something that purports to be parliament, mimic this.]

Just imagine Ken and Franco as a couple – absolutely bitching.

Interestingly, the grandest ever was built by Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania’s former dictator. Another of the world’s most impressive parliament buildings is in Bangladesh, which until very recently was ranked at the bottom of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.

[Daphne – The world’s most iconic parliament building is in the home of parliamentary democracy. Would you recognise Romania’s parliament building, or Bangladesh’s? No. But you do recognise the one on your sauce bottle.]

Yes, featuring glitter pen and mounted with extra large “gold frames” in true contemporary art style..

I suggest that the new parliament is retained, but that Kenneth Zammit Tabona is appointed Speaker of the House.

There are enough masterpieces on the government’s side to put this parliament on a par with the finest contemporary art museums in the whole world. And although they are feminist, the government’s side is dominated by men, so Kenneth should be happy.

Today, I stopped buying The Times again after the past three months I broke a promise to myself that I would not buy this rag.

This is final. I hope The Times goes to hell.

It seems that the Labour elves commissioned to spew anti PN propaganda and spinning negativity whenever the PN is featured are still in frenzy mode.

They won…. but the hdura and lanzit is still burning.

I suppose the idea being A4 sized squiggles should become the obligatory standard format.

Ara vera patatu.

England said his suggestion would have been to move Parliament to the Mediterranean Conference Centre, but only if the Piano project hadn’t been chosen…. what a difference.